Postcolonial Stylistics

This accessible introduction to postcolonial stylistics looks at the shared aims of stylistics and postcolonial studies and illustrates how to apply the analytical and theoretical tools of stylistics to a selection of literary and non-literary texts from a range of English-speaking postcolonial contexts.

Autorentext

Esterino Adami is an Associate Professor of English Language, Translation, and Linguistics at the University of Turin, Department of Humanities (Italy). He is the author of Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Texts (2022), and Railway Discourse: Linguistic and Stylistic Representations of the Train in the Anglophone World (2018).

Inhalt

1. Introduction: for a postcolonial stylistics

2. Style and postcolonial texts

3. Language

4. Identity

5. Belonging

6. History

7. Ecology

8. Conclusion

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